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Yenza: la voz de la inspiración

<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Czerina Patel es una inspiración. Desborda energía cuando habla de su proyecto Yenza, dedicado a unir personas y promover cambios en África y el resto del mundo. “Yenza significa ‘hacer’ en Xhosa y Zulu” explica Czerina, una joven que regresó […]

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When the ad is better than the news

Remember when The Times ran those profitable, short “liners,” commercial and personal ads, at the bottom of front-page news columns in the print editions? It took years for editors to get them off. Times change. See today’s homepage. BTB: I captured the musical iPhone animation with Jing, new software to grab images and video off […]

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Reporter shot in 2008, laid off in 2009

Last year Todd Smith was shot while covering a city council meeting for a newspaper in suburban St. Louis, Mo. Of the six people who were shot, he was the only one to survive. Last week, the newspaper laid him off. “My family is obviously really not happy that I took a bullet for a […]

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The Internet Has Made Us Lazy

I like to complain about the state of communications – generally, and especially online. There is a ton of content flowing online — but most of it is not worth consuming (and certainly not worth paying for). There are millions of organizations requesting donations and demanding action — but very few people participating and far […]

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Susan Boyle Conspiracy Theory

I want so badly to believe that Susan Boyle is a real phenomenon.  I want to have faith that someone can appear out of nowhere, show off some talent, and have their life changed as a result.  I want to believe that wasn’t possible before the internet existed, and everyone had their own channel and […]

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WeMedia Pitch-it 09 Winners head to battle in San Jose

The Extraordinaries and SeeClickFix have both been voted in as finalists in the Netsquared n2y4 mobile competition. The International competition saw 100’s of entries and 15 mobile innovators remain. The stakes are high: 50K, bragging rights and the bounty of likely personal side-bets between The Extraordinaries and SeeClickFix.  (Hopefully n2y4 prints their checks in large […]

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